So after months and months of rambling back and forth, he reported she reported, and the owners and players doing a fair amount of snipping back and forth, it looks like we will have some type of resolution within the next four or five days.

That's right, the start of the college hoops season is just one week away and you know what that means: it's time to unleash the mother effing fury! For the past seven months, I've been bottling up a vicious mixture of excitement and rage, just waiting for the moment to release my emotions onto the rest of the world.

Conference tournaments haven't yet wrapped up, and the NCAA Tournament Selection Show is still hours away, but I don't have to wait for the seeding: Louisville is my pick to win the 2009 national championship.
When it comes to the World Series, the Super Bowl, and the Big Dance in recent years, parity across the board has created a climate where it's not so much who has the most talent, but who gets hot at the right time and who can channel that "We (Heart) Haters" motivation effectively.